I love to put down blobs of color and then create a little scene on top

Sketchbooks provide the chance to make quick summaries of what you see like a quick camera snapshot. Spontaneous notation is what it's all about. Often preparatory sketches are more personal, more interesting than the final finished painting.

More color blobs + grape picker doodles

Chateau doodles. The thing about sketchbooks is they are private.You can be as casual and messy and experimental as you like.No ones going to see what you do...Well almost no one

Some of the sketchbook paraphrenalia you can "collect" in the name of sketching! There are endless art supplies out there waiting to tempt you and every bit as luscious as any pastry.

Hi; Part of my studies took me to Liège in Belgium where we stayed with a family for 3 months. The father is an architect/artist; this is the link to his sketchbook which i like to share when the subject of sketching comes up. He is part of a group called Urban Sketchers. http://www.urbansketchers.org/

You had a very productive bookbinding period!!! I've been making my own sketchbooks one at a time...and I swear I'm going to start using commercial books because it takes so darn long and I'm not very proficient...but I just made a new one because I had an inspiration I wanted to follow...next sketchbook, COMMERCIAL!

I love your blog today!I have always loved Delacroix's sketchbooks and I was in heaven when I saw Turner's at the Tate. So personal and lovely,like seeing inside the artist's mind.Your journals are beautiful. I,too,bind journals occasionally but they do not look as great as yours. Maybe it's that luscious marble paper?Merci!Linda

Art Supplies & Sketchbooks, now those are my kind of pastries! In David's class, I fell in love with some of the thumbnails I saw. The spontaneity is what I love! Love your sketchbooks, & also those of Delacroix (visited his studio on Rue de Furstenberg & it was the watercolors & sketches that I loved, verses the big paintings. "Multi-doodles" & "blobs", you sketch great words too!!

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